NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 9, 10 July 1895, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

_ — .* (Per Press Association). Auckland, July 9. Mr Richard Arthur, auctioneer, who returned from Sydney yesterday by the Tasmania, died suddenly to-day. He bad been in ill health. The Women's Liberal League are initiating a movement for a statue to Sir G. Grey in Auckland. A visitor to Muriwai to see the whales stranded in large numbers on the West Coast picked up 800oz ambergris. The find is valued at .£2OOO. The Liberal Association has passed a resolution regretting Sir George Grey's withdrawal from politics, and hoping that his life will be spared for many years in the service of his fellow-men. The Shopkeepers' Defence League are sending two monster petitions to Parliament asking to be allowed the option of closing on Wednesday, and that no exemptions be allowed. Dunedin, July 9. Information has been received that Frank W. B. Fitohett, a local medical student, has passed his final examination for degrees of Bachelor of Medicines and Master of Surgery at the Edinburgh University and has received an appointment as one of the resident physicians in the Edinburgh Royal Infirrmary. At the inquest on the young man Eeeve, who took rat poison, a verdict was returned that he died from poison self-administered while temporarily insane. At a meeting held to-night a resolution was carried that it is desirable to commemorate in a fitting mariner the memory of the late Bishop Moran. A committee was appointed to raise the necessary funds. The Rev. H. Hewitson, late of Brunswick, Victoria, was inducted to-night into the pastoral charge of Knox Church. Christchurch, July 9. At a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Diocese of Christchurch, a reso* lution was passed expressing profound objection to the proposal that Parliament should authorise the lottery of the Bank of New Zealand Estates Company's assets, and it was considered that the course pro posed would be directly contrary to the best interests of the people. The Christchurch Presbytery also passed a motion protesting against the proposed lottery. The ketch Annie, trading between the Peninsula and Heathcote, was found drifting about at the heads to-day, without any sign of her crew of two men. Palmerston N., This Day. The Fitzherbert Road Board have decided to construct a river-bank road in preference to a bridge over the Manawatu at Hokowhitu.